Abstract:
More college researchers are set to team up with businesses to produce products that have market potential and can create high-quality jobs following a €37 million investment boost announced this week by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O'Keeffe.

At the start of this year, five competence centres were added to the initial pilot centre, Food for Health.

These are the Centre in Nanotechnology (Tyndall Institute, UCC); Centre in Composite Materials (UL); Centre on IT Innovation (NUIM); Centre in-Bioenergy (NUIG); and Centre in Microelectronics (Tyndall Institute, UCC).